Choosing the sweetest, freshest corn is easier than you think when you know the simple trick shoppers often overlook that involves examining the kernels.

Making the best corn on the cob is easier than you think.

With grilling season around the corner, we know you'll be breaking out the corn soon. Don't get caught with soggy kernels, ...

There seems to be no good way to get corn kernels off the cob. Most “hacks” involve precariously balancing an ear of corn in a bowl, slicing them off, and hoping you don’t slip and slice a finger ...

Nothing says summer like a sweet ear of corn. But that treat would be much harder to eat if it weren’t for a crucial mutation. The change, in just one letter of the DNA code, appears to have cracked ...

If not for a single genetic mutation, each kernel on a juicy corn cob would be trapped inside a inedible casing as tough as a walnut shell. The mutation switches one amino acid for another at a ...

An ear of corn averages about 800 kernels. A traditional field method to estimate the number of kernels on the ear is to manually count the number of rows and multiply by the number of kernels in one ...

JONESBORO, ARK. – Ginkgo Bioworks is partnering with GreenLab, a plant biotechnology company that produces proteins in corn, to create brazzein, a sweet-tasting protein, at commercial scale. Brazzein, ...